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Date: 10 September 2009 12:41:34
I was sent the link to a couple of different youtube videos by Sigur Ros. Who play post-rock music, which is a genre I knew nothing about. I wasn’t sure what to expect and was definitely not expecting the response I had. Listening to them transported me back to when I was about 5, I was in the living room with my Grandad listening to music. It was so clear, the way you usually only get when the song was actually played when the memory happened in the first place. I’ve since been trying to place why I had this response. As a small child Grandad liked to introduce me to a variety of music. He believed that there was no music that wasn’t accessible to children. He made music fun, there was lots of dancing to it, although he did drive all his grandchildren up the wall with such comments as “listen to the violins on this piece”. He taught me to not dismiss music out of hand and to listen to it. This meant that we listen to everything from High brow Opera to the Mr Men. I remember as a child loving The Nutcraker Suite. Through this openness to different styles of music, I in a way learnt without realising it to not just do what others expect, that you can like what you like without conforming to what others tell you. I guess I’m once again realising what amazing impact my Grandad had on me.